Reproducible Research Example

Project description

Using the 2019 Global Attitudes & Trends data set from the Pew Internet & American Life website, I will answer the research question, Do perceptions about various U.S. policies under President Trump vary by country?

The data and code book are available on the Pew website (need free account).

Download data, code, codebook, and text here.

Measurement

To answer my research question, I used a subset of the data that included survey participants responses to the following questions: As I read some policies of U.S. President Donald Trump, please tell me if you approve or disapprove of each one. How about [INSERT ITEM]?

Items	Response options
U.S. withdrawal from international climate change agreements	1 = Approve 2 = Disapprove 8 = Don’t know 9 = Refused
Building a wall on the border between the U.S. and Mexico	1 = Approve 2 = Disapprove 8 = Don’t know 9 = Refused
U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear weapons agreement	1 = Approve 2 = Disapprove 8 = Don’t know 9 = Refused
Allowing fewer immigrants into the U.S.	1 = Approve 2 = Disapprove 8 = Don’t know 9 = Refused
U.S. increasing tariffs or fees on imported goods from other countries	1 = Approve 2 = Disapprove 8 = Don’t know 9 = Refused
U.S. negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un about the country’s nuclear weapons program	1 = Approve 2 = Disapprove 8 = Don’t know 9 = Refused

This paragraph might talk about about the process and statistical methods used. What happened during data management (recoding, missing value handling), which descriptive statistics and statistical tests were used, what assumptions were checked.

Results

Here is a table showing the basic descriptive statistics.

Table. Policy support for Trump policies among 10,000 survey participants in Brazil, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, South Korea, United States. (Data source: Pew Research Center Global Attitudes Survey (2019)).

Characteristic	Category	n (%)
U.S. withdrawal from international climate change agreements	Approve	552 (27.2)
	Disapprove	1481 (72.8)
Building a wall on the border between the U.S. and Mexico	Approve	573 (27.1)
	Disapprove	1540 (72.9)
U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear weapons agreement	Approve	734 (36.9)
	Disapprove	1254 (63.1)
Allowing fewer immigrants into the U.S.	Approve	786 (37.4)
	Disapprove	1313 (62.6)
U.S. increasing tariffs or fees on imported goods from other countries	Approve	493 (23.1)
	Disapprove	1644 (76.9)
U.S. negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un about the country’s nuclear weapons program	Approve	1111 (54.1)
	Disapprove	943 (45.9)

Maybe add some text here pointing out anything interesting or unexpected in the table that the readers might want to view more closely. Also explain anything in the table that suggests how the research question might eventually be answered.

Visualizing the relationships between country and policies

Figure. Percent approving or disapproving of the policy of U.S. withdrawal from international climate change agreements by country.

Figure. Percent approving or disapproving of the policy of building a wall on the border between the U.S. and Mexico by country.

Figure. Percent approving or disapproving of the policy of U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear weapons agreement by country.

Figure. Percent approving or disapproving of the policy of allowing fewer immigrants into the U.S. by country.

Figure. Percent approving or disapproving of the policy of U.S. increasing tariffs or fees on imported goods from other countries by country.

Figure. Percent approving or disapproving of the policy of U.S. negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un about the country’s nuclear weapons program.

Discussion

After all the methods and results, you would usually summarize the key points from your analyses and add some context by connecting your results to published evidence relevant to your work. Here is where you might add citations. More discussion of the findings that cite some of the literature in this area (Kolencik 2022). Another statement about the literature and citing it goes here (Sully et al. 2022).

References

Kolencik, Gabrielle M. 2022. “Harmony Between Man and His Environment: Reviewing the Trump Administration’s Changes to the National Environmental Policy Act in the Context of Environmental Racism.” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 50 (1): 76–84. https://doi.org/10.1017/jme.2022.11.

Sully, Elizabeth A., Solomon Shiferaw, Assefa Seme, Suzanne O. Bell, and Margaret Giorgio. 2022. “Impact of the Trump Administration’s Expanded Global Gag Rule Policy on Family Planning Service Provision in Ethiopia.” Studies in Family Planning, May. https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.12196.